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| 1920 |
| | | Ten years of violent revolution in Mexico are brought to and end in a successful coup by Alvaro Obregón | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Italian troops drive Gabriele d'Annunzio and his followers from Fiume, which they have occupied for more than a year | |
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| 1920 |
| | | On his return to Britain from the far east, Bernard Leach sets up a pottery studio in St Ives | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The American novelist Sinclair Lewis has his first major success with Main Street, an unflattering portrayal of American village life | |
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| 1920 May |
| | | League of Nations mandates give Britain responsibility for Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine | |
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| 1920 May |
| | | League of Nations mandates give France responsibility for Syria and Lebanon | |
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| 1920 August |
| | | A punitive peace treaty, negotiated at Sèvres, is designed to dismember the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1920 August 10 |
| | | The sultan of Turkey signs the Treaty of Sèvres with the Allies but it is rejected by the new nationalist government | |
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| 1920 November 11 |
| | | The body of an Unknown Warrior, selected at random from British war graves, is buried at the entrance to Westminster Abbey | |
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| 1920 November 11 |
| | | The body of an unknown French soldier is laid to rest in a chapel within the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and a few weeks later is buried at ground level beneath the arch | |
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